eoin wrote: > Ok - I now know better what I want to do. > > Basically using gcc I want to statically link a number of .as to a shared > object and dynamically link the rest. > > In Solaris I do -h <so name> -z muldefs -z allextract -Bstatic <list of > archives> -Bdynamic > > In gcc what I'm trying is -shared (I require this option due to a few other > things) -z muldefs -static <list of archives> -shared > > This however does not statically link the archives into the shared > object(acccording to ldd). Any ideas? -Wl,-whole-archive > > Thanks > > > eoin wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm a new poster here. I am porting some Solaris code over to Linux >> and using the GNU compiler and linker. Now I have a "meta >> library"(creating a "master" shared object from mayny shared objects) >> which creates fine in Solaris but in Linux it doesn't create as a meta >> library - ldd suggests that it depends on the libraries which were >> previously used to produce the meta library on solaris. >> Looking into this I can see that with every .so we effectively lose >> the identity and so with a metalibrary what we need to do is to "unravel" >> the .sos to produce the meta library. >> I do this in Solaris using the -z extract option. I can't see how to >> do this in Linux using the GNU linker. Anyone any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> >
